This is a powerful TED Talk given by Nadia Lopez, a middle school principal who opened her own school in Brownsville, a community in Brooklyn.

At the beginning of her talk, she goes over the statistics of the neighborhood violence and then the statistics of the first kids a part of her school.

To emphasize the important information, she uses simple visuals that only have a couple main statistics in large font.

As she moves on in her talk to speak on her students’ success despite being an underserved community, the images shown are still simple but are powerful in the messages that she talks about.

Her delivery emphasizes important or striking points with a change in tone and volume.

The main difference between her TED Talk and a normal speech is the audience involvement in the speech. She often addresses the audience directly, either with a rhetorical question or as a way to make them think critically.

Her hand gestures and movements also differ from a regular speech with more range of motion.

The visuals are designed to be readable in a quick format. The speaker then adds to the images to give them direction.

This is done without notes, which is a big change from the regular speech we have studied or done before.

Lopez does an incredible job of placing her words deliberately without stuttering, and really knows her speech well enough to not create awkward pauses when trying to remember.

She varied her eye contact to around the room and made sure to turn to different sides of the audience.

Another aspect I really like about her talk was that she created a theme.

The colors of her school are purple and black to symbolize power in their culture and their abilities. The stats were all in purple and she even wore a black suit with a purple under shirt and eye shadow.

It connects the audience to the topic even more, and adds to how powerful and proud she is about her “scholars” as she calls her students.

Key: Italics are delivery notes to myself, while anything written normally are actually a part of my speech. Also, I changed my first lens from rhetorical situation to visual criticism lol. So now my lenses are visual criticism and the trust lens.

Intro:

A. I believe that we will win!

For this to be a good attention getter I need to be loud.

How does that phrase make you feel? What memories are tied to these words.

Feelings of triumph, of pride, inspiration. These are all things that any athlete, or even any spectator, can relate to.

B. When you hear that chant, no one stops to ask, “men’s or women’s?”

So why is that such a distinction in today’s athletics? Pause. 

In 2019, the National Women’s Soccer Team released an ad titled “Never Stop Winning,” utilizing the “I believe that we will win” chant to address this exact (emphasize this word) issue within their everyday experiences as a successful female team.

C. The “Never Stop Winning” ad aims to provoke questions of equality within sports and the everyday work force for women.

D. In the rest of my speech, our main focus will be on how the equal pay gap was addressed on and off field as well as how the ad calls for opportunities to be given to girls and (emphasize) boys through equality.

 

Claim 1: the women’s soccer team uses their continuous pattern of success to reason that men’s and women’s sports should not be spoken about unequally.

1. the narrator of the video lists off a continuous line of accomplishments that she then ends with “we will keep winning until we not only become just the best female soccer team, but the best soccer team in the world.”
2. Notice how she drops the “female” in best team in the world. Women’s accomplishments in sports are always stated with their sex. “Best female soccer player, first female basketball player to score so many shots” and so on, however (pause). Many of men’s accomplishments are labeled just greatest player of all time. There is never a distinction with male players, as if they are the baseline, the standard. Highlighting that type of language after listing all the soccer team’s accomplishments truly makes the audience feel how absurd it is that only one side of the sports world is supposed to designate their sex when showing their accomplishments, and how it diminishes women’s success compared to men’s.

Testing the time change.